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Jerboa app and Lemmy 0.18 (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ruud to c/lemmyworld

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The 0.18 version of Lemmy was announced. This will solve many issues.

But we can't upgrade yet because the captcha was removed, and captcha relied on Websockets, which are removed in 0.18 so despite the devs agreeing on my request to add captcha back, this will not be until 0.18.1. Without captcha we will be overrun by bots.

Hopefully this 0.18.1 will be released soon, because another issue is that the newest version of the Jerboa app won't work with servers older than 0.18. So if you're on Lemmy.world, please (temporarily) use another app or the web version.

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[–] wit 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Damn, that sucks. Is manual approving + email not enough for the time being?

EDIT: I see that in the GitHub issue you linked, you answer this question. TLDR: No, it is not enough it seems.

[–] AlmightySnoo 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

manual approving

this won't scale, captchas are a low-hanging fruit that should have never been removed

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were removed because they don't work with the new system, not because someone felt like removing it. If someone volunteers to add them back, they'll be back

[–] AlmightySnoo 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I mean is why couldn't they postpone the 0.18.0 release then?

[–] minimar 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because it addresses a number of critical bugs. Why is nobody in this thread reading the update announcement? They explain themselves well there.

@[email protected] maybe link to it in this post as it'd probably clear up a lot of confusion.

[–] ruud 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The first link in my post is to the release blog.

[–] minimar 2 points 1 year ago

Oh fuck you're right lmao, sorry

[–] wit 7 points 1 year ago

I understand. It would only be until captchas are back in the release (i.e. 0.18.1). I only suggested this because 0.18 fixed some nasty annoyances.